Still building — what’s new, and what you helped fix

County Commons is a small, independent project built in public, one record at a time. Here’s what changed lately across every county site, and the fixes that came from readers. Last update: October 25, 2026.

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Built for every county — the most-requested go next

County Commons is built out furthest for Clark County, Arkansas: the budget line by line, audits, petitions, offices and more. Every U.S. county has a starting page, and we build more for any county on request. Each request is counted here; the counties with the most requests get built next.

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Recent updates — across every county site

October 25, 2026

Move Clark details out of the code and into config
LICENSE: plain MIT text so GitHub detects it (the data license note lives in README and DATA-LICENSE.md)
Free to copy: MIT code, CC BY 4.0 data, and a copy-it page
Petitions are searchable: national directory, shared roll-ups, county board search, sitemaps
Opinions live only in petitions: site-wide editorial audit

October 24, 2026

Sign state and national petitions straight from a shared link
The open-checkbook petition in every U.S. county
Every county: low-cost health clinics and doctor-shortage designations
Answer what people search: spending, jail, property tax, jobs, audit, libraries
Federal audit wording: special-basis books aren't 'misstated'
Every county: government finances, federal audit, property tax, jobs, libraries
Petitions on every county page in the country
Built for every county: request more for yours

October 23, 2026

Help keep this honest: corrections and additions from every page
Petitions: never reuse an id (shared titles collided across counties)
Shared petitions: the same ask in every county, state and nation
Petitions: a better share preview before the first signatures
Petitions: say who started one when it isn't an anonymous resident

October 22, 2026

Petitions: the priorities board as the clipboard everyone recognizes

October 18, 2026

Add /compare on every county: how it compares, in computed facts
Traffic: credit tagged shared links (?via=fb and a fixed list)
Traffic: tally what kind of software asked for each page
Election dates for all 50 states and D.C.

October 17, 2026

How every county compares with counties like it, and what has worked

October 14, 2026

Election Day vote centers and polling places, every Arkansas county
Early voting sites for the Nov. 3 general election, every Arkansas county
Housing costs for every U.S. county: HUD fair market rents
Elected officials and quorum courts for all 75 Arkansas counties
City audits: every Arkansas town's latest state audit on its county's page
Answer what people search: fiscal health, ARPA spending, towns, audit terms

October 12, 2026

Make every county page its own: state rankings and nearest neighbors
Weekly refresh of the open federal grants list
Schools, health, disaster risk, bridges and grants for every county
State hubs: every state's government money, offices and counties
Front door links to every U.S. county page
Every U.S. county, searchable: the national base template

October 11, 2026

What the auditors found: every Arkansas county's latest state audit
Who to call: /offices on every county

October 10, 2026

Who's watching: a surveillance page on every county
Stance: tenet 7 — trust no one, check everything; guarded by light, not locks
IndexNow: retry a host's first 403 while the key is fetched; take several site keys
IndexNow: retry a host's first 403 while the key is fetched; take several site keys
IndexNow: announce every page to search engines, in the open
Bing Webmaster Tools site verification tag

October 8, 2026

Make every site findable as a research source
Elections in 9 more states, and where to vote on every non-Arkansas site
Elections: confirmed clerk hours and voting sites for 10 Arkansas counties
Elections: county clerk contact on every Arkansas county page
Dockets for 73 Arkansas counties, seeded from their 2026 money trails
Money trails for the last 16 scanned Arkansas budgets (2026, read by OCR)

Straight from the project’s change history. Every change is public: the code is open at github.com/TiredofSleep/countycommons.